READ: Avast to Separate CCleaner Active Monitoring and heartbeat, promises control to user over theseĪugust 07. READ: How to disable CCleaner’s Scheduled tasks and Startup ItemĪugUpdate: Finally, Avast responded on the issue. So to avoid this, open and run CCleaner only, if you do some cleaning, unless don’t use the app to prevent activation of CCleaner monitoring. But you can kill its process in Task Manager. But by disabling CCleaner startup item, we’re able to prevent CCleaner from running on startup of computer.īut when you open or run CCleaner at least once in the session, CCleaner monitoring will be active in that session, which you can’t end even if close CCleaner. When you disable it, it gets re-enabled again. If you’re using Windows 7 or other Windows version, type msconfig in Run dialog to open system configuration and disable the CCleaner startup item.Ĭlarification: The CCleaner has activate monitoring feature permanently enabled by default, which you can’t disable. Click on Startup tab, select ‘CCleaner’ and click Disable.But here is how you can turn off CCleaner active monitoring in version 5.45.ĭisable Active Monitoring in CCleaner 5.45 Is this a bug ? Or intentional change by Avast, we’ll know that soon. If you disable the setting, it has no effect as you can notice CCleaner icon in the system tray saying ‘CCleaner monitoring is active’. Unfortunately, CCleaner 5.45 isn’t honoring active monitoring setting. Both features can be disabled by visiting CCleaner > Options> Monitoring. On the other hand, Active Monitoring checks for CCleaner product updates and alerts you when a new version of CCleaner is available. System Monitoring shows a notification if cleaning with CCleaner saves more than 0.5 GB of disk space. And they’ve a new reporting system in place for CCleaner which sends heartbeat for every 12 hours, that informs up-to-date usage statistics to Avast, Avast claims this allows them to quickly push bug fixes and product improvements.ĬCleaner has two monitoring features enabled by default, one is System Monitoring and other one is Active Monitoring. Piriform has taken away the data collection opt-out setting from Privacy Settings of CCleaner. If you see inaccuracies in our content, please report the mistake via this form.After pop up ads shown by CCleaner previous version, we’ve now a new version of CCleaner 5.45 available with changes that may irritate and annoy you even more. If we have made an error or published misleading information, we will correct or clarify the article. Our editors thoroughly review and fact-check every article to ensure that our content meets the highest standards. Our goal is to deliver the most accurate information and the most knowledgeable advice possible in order to help you make smarter buying decisions on tech gear and a wide array of products and services. ZDNET's editorial team writes on behalf of you, our reader. Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews. This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping.
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